Fire Guts 25 Shops In Ibadan Spare Parts Market

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No fewer than 25 shops were gutted by fire at Araromi Spare parts market, Agodi Gate, Ibadan in the early hours of Saturday.

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The General Manager Oyo State Fire Service, Rev. Canon Yemi Akinyinka confirmed the incident in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Ibadan.

Akinyinka said the service got a call about the incident around 2.30 a.m. through one Mr Soliu and immediately deployed personnel to the place to quench the fire.

โ€œThe incident was caused by a careless burning of refuse, they refuse to put off the burning refuse before leaving the shop and it escalated.

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โ€œThe impression they gave us initially was that around 45 shops were affected but when we got there we discovered that 25 shops were affected by the fire incident,โ€ Akinyinka said.

He further said that his men were able to extinguish the fire around 5.00 a.m. on Saturday and no life was lost in the incident.

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